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Archives of Maryland online



The Maryland State Archives is pleased to announce the completion of the
first phase in its project to place the legal history of Maryland online.
The site can be found at: http://www.archivesofmaryland.net.The 72 volume
Archives of Maryland series which was published between 1883 and 1972 is
available online as searchable text and as images.
        This is an ongoing project that will eventually include the legislative
record up to the present day. We are using a different approach than most
scanning projects in that we are doing OCR work on 19th century texts. The
output isn't ideal but it does allow our search engine to index the pages
and provide a readable text output. We ask that after finding the relevant
passage in the text the researcher look at the image of the page to verify
the accuracy of the OCR.
        At this point we are not doing any encoding of the output (i.e. TEI). The
text is saved as ASCII and then converted with a Perl script to HTML. This
doesn't provide as rich a resource but it does enable us to put a large
quantity of material online at a relatively low price. We may encode the
text at a future date but at this point we feel it is more important have
the materials accessible that to provide refined searching of a small set
of this material.
        We encourage feedback, this is a work in progress and we are very willing
to redesign our site as well as add new materials at the request of our users.

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Roger H. Kizer Ball                     rogerhkb@mdarchives.state.md.us
Archives of Maryland On-Line            http://www.archivesofmaryland.net
Maryland State Archives
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
410.260.6417
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